Jeremiah 12:13-15

New Century Version

¹³The people have planted wheat,
    but they have harvested only thorns.
They have worked hard until they were very tired,
    but they have nothing for all their work.
They are ashamed of their poor harvest,
    because the Lord’s terrible anger has caused this.”

¹⁴This is what the Lord said to me: “Here is what I will do to all my wicked neighbors who take the land I gave my people Israel. I will pull them up and throw them out of their land. And I will pull up the people of Judah from among them. ¹⁵But after I pull them up, I will feel sorry for them again. I will bring each person back to his own property and to his own land.

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